Introduction to Agile Software Development

This is a free talk aimed at Software Developers, QAs/Testers, Product Owners and Infrastructure/Operations Specialists who seek to adopt a more agile way of delivering software.

Requirements: Participants at this talk are expected to have had some commercial experience working in a software development team.

Session 1

• Introduction to the Lagos Agile & Craftsmanship Meetup

• An Introduction to Agile Software Development

• The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles

• What Agile is not

• Principles of Extreme Programming

• XP practices: Team practices (Team roles, Pair programming, retrospectives, informative workspace)

Session 2

• XP Practices: Release practices(Version Control, Short builds, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Collective Code Ownership)

• XP Practices: Development practices (TDD, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Simple Design, Spikes, Incremental Requirements)

• Planning Extreme Programming

• Case Study 1: Agile at a large news publisher

• Case Study 2: Agile at a large investment bank

• Questions

• Feedback